Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, in a diplomatic cable from Libya last June, cited the apparent rise of “Islamic extremism” and the spotting of “the Al Qaeda flag” over buildings outside the city of Benghazi, where he and three other Americans were ultimately killed in an attack on Sept. 11.

The Washington Times would quote Stevens as writing:

"A number of local contacts agreed, noting that Islamic extremism appears to be on the rise in eastern Libya and that the Al Qaeda
flag has been spotted several times flying over government buildings
and training facilities” in a small Libyan city about 100 miles east of
Benghazi."

While all of this is depicted by the Western media as a recent revelation made only after the death of Ambassador Stevens, journalists around the world had documented and warned of the dangers of arming "pro-democracy protesters" who were clearly militant extremists, actively carrying out terrorism for at least three decades in the Cyrenaica (eastern Libya) region. These warning came just as NATO bombs began to fall on Libya in 2011, and were reiterated many times before the bombing concluded.

Video: March, 2011, shortly after NATO began bombing Libya, journalists the world over were warning that the so-called "pro-democracy" protesters the West was purportedly protecting were in fact notorious extremist groups with a 30 year history of terrorism in Libya and abroad. Dr. Webster Tarpley provided documented evidence collected from the US Army's own West Point study, indicating the the epicenter of the so-called "revolution," was in fact the global epicenter of Al Qaeda recruitment. It would be in this epicenter that John McCain would give his speech, and where Ambassador Stevens would later be killed.

The United Nations, in addition to labeling LIFG as a terrorist organization, designated it as being in association with Al Qaeda, a designation that was made in 2001, a decade before NATO's military intervention.

While the Western press and State Department officials attempt to claim the extremists operating in Benghazi are merely "affiliated" with Al Qaeda, this is an understatement. LIFG is Al Qaeda, and has been officially since 2007. The West Point report titled, "Al-Qa'ida's Foreign Fighters in Iraq" stated:

The apparent surge in Libyan recruits traveling to Iraq may be linked
the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group’s (LIFG) increasingly cooperative
relationship with al‐Qa’ida, which culminated in the LIFG officially
joining al‐Qa’ida on November 3, 2007. (page 9, .pdf)

To this day, LIFG leaders are alleged to occupy the highest echelons of Al Qaeda, with the recently deceased Abu Yahya al-Libi (the Libyan) having played a role in both terror outfits. With West Point's 2007 report and the UN's 2001 official designation, it is clear that NATO's decision to arm these groups was an act of unprecedented, blatant state sponsorship of terrorism. That the UN mandated NATO's intervention, undermines entirely the "primacy of international law."Warning Signs Were Covered Up, Not Ignored.

While the Western press glossed over stories covering the hoisting of
Al Qaeda flags described by Ambassador Stevens in his cables, the
development was covered across the alternative media, including in, "John McCain: Founding Father of the Terrorist Emirate of Benghazi,"
where the full implications and genesis of these prevailing extremists forces
were examined in detail. Alternative analysis was quickly dismissed as "conspiracy theories," even as Ambassador Stevens was
sending his cables to Washington conveying exactly the same information.

The West did not
"ignore" these warnings. It covered them up intentionally through a concerted campaign of deceit, cognitive infiltration, and ridicule. The intelligence services
of Washington and London had been supplying weapons and aid to the
terrorists of Benghazi for 30 years, fought along side them in
Afghanistan against the Soviets in the 1980's, armed and unleashed them
in Kosovo in the 1990's, and willfully bolstered their numbers,
armament, and operational capacity in 2011 in order to overthrow the
Libyan government.

The terror emirate of Benghazi that consumed Ambassador Stevens is a monster of the West's own willful, premeditated creation - the West fully cognizant of the implications - and a monster the West is currently still arming, funding, and supporting, this time along the Turkish-Syrian border.

Abdulhakim Belhadj, head of the Tripoli Military Council and the former leader
of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, "met with Free Syrian Army
leaders in Istanbul and on the border with Turkey," said a military
official working with Mr Belhadj. "Mustafa Abdul Jalil (the interim
Libyan president) sent him there."

Syrian rebels held secret talks with Libya's new authorities on Friday,
aiming to secure weapons and money for their insurgency against
President Bashar al-Assad's regime, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

At the meeting, which was held in Istanbul and included Turkish officials, the
Syrians requested "assistance" from the Libyan representatives and
were offered arms, and potentially volunteers.

"There is something being planned to send weapons and even Libyan
fighters to Syria," said a Libyan source, speaking on condition of
anonymity. "There is a military intervention on the way. Within a few
weeks you will see."

Later that month, some 600 Libyan terrorists
would be reported to have entered Syria to begin combat operations and more recently, CNN, whose Ivan Watson accompanied terrorists
over the
Turkish-Syrian border and into Aleppo, revealed that indeed foreign
fighters were amongst the militants, particularly Libyans. It was admitted that:

Meanwhile, residents of
the village where the Syrian Falcons were headquartered said there were
fighters of several North African nationalities also serving with the
brigade's ranks.

A volunteer Libyan
fighter has also told CNN he intends to travel from Turkey to Syria
within days to add a "platoon" of Libyan fighters to armed movement.

On Wednesday, CNN’s crew met a Libyan fighter who had crossed into
Syria from Turkey with four other Libyans. The fighter wore full
camouflage and was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle. He said more Libyan
fighters were on the way.

The foreign fighters, some of them are clearly drawn because they
see this as … a jihad. So this is a magnet for jihadists who see this as
a fight for Sunni Muslims.

In essence, Syria has been under invasion for nearly a year by Libyan
terrorists - the very same terrorists who have overrun Benghazi and killed a US ambassador, fully facilitated by NATO. In addition to these terrorists, Turkey and the United States are also arming and funding Muslim Brotherhood militants as well as fighters from US State Department-listed Ansar al-Islam.

To explain this to the public, the Western press is claiming that the weapons are inadvertently ending up in the hands of extremists, despite the CIA operating along the border allegedly steering weapons into the hands of "more secular" militants.

A small number of C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers.

The weapons, including automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades,
ammunition and some antitank weapons, are being funneled mostly across
the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries
including Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood and paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the officials said.

The C.I.A. officers have been in southern Turkey for several weeks, in
part to help keep weapons out of the hands of fighters allied with Al
Qaeda or other terrorist groups, one senior American official said.

Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials and Middle Eastern diplomats.

Clearly, there are only two explanations. The CIA is inept and should be held accountable for its profound and repeated failures, or the same verified lies told by the West in regards to Libya are being repeated in Syria.

Either way, the West, though its demonstrable actions, has forfeited its self-proclaimed authority to intervene beyond its borders, based on "international law" it willfully, openly, and repeatedly violates, selectively enforces, and otherwise manipulates to achieve its extraterritorial ambitions - and must be excluded entirely from any solution implemented to resolve the violence unfolding in Syria.